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# Senior/Staff Back-End Engineer: Infrastructure

- **Company:** Helm LLC
- **Location:** Columbus, OH, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $150,000 - $225,000
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, BigTable, BigQuery, Cloud Computing, Databases, Continuous Integration, Cursor, Linux, DevOps, Disaster Recovery, Github, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, NoSQL, Performance Tuning, Redis, Software Engineering, Datadog, Google Cloud, Delivery Pipeline, Firebase, Backend, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Sentry, Gsuite, Claude, Google Gemini, Terraform, GPT, Docker
- **Published:** October 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/senior-staff-back-end-engineer-infrastructure-columbus-oh--b691d796-132c-4852-87d1-c31994694906

## About the Role

Startup, Insurance, Health Insurance, Patient Care, Co-Payments, Health Plan Membership, Health Plan, On Call, DevOps, Software Engineering, * 5+ years in backend engineering, with significant infrastructure or DevOps experience

 * Strong Terraform/Terraform Cloud experience
 * Experience with Docker and Kubernetes in production
 * Google Cloud Platform experience
 * Hands-on experience operating and scaling databases (relational and NoSQL)
 * Experience with CI/CD systems, monitoring, and observability tooling
 * Backend engineering fundamentals - you've built and maintained production services, even if infrastructure is now your primary focus, * Go proficiency
 * Experience with disaster recovery planning and runbook creation
 * Healthcare infrastructure experience - HIPAA, SOC 2 Type 2, HITRUST
 * Incident management tooling (incident.io or similar)
 * Python proficiency
 * Start-up experience, * Reliable and detail-oriented - infrastructure mistakes are expensive, and you take that seriously.
 * Mission-driven - motivated by making healthcare simpler and more transparent
 * Willing to ask questions and admit what you don't know
 * Versatile - you're an infrastructure specialist who can context-switch into application-level work when needed

## Description

We're seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join our Infrastructure team and report to our Principal DevOps Engineer. You'll focus on platform engineering and DevOps - CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, reliability, and operational tooling. You'll serve as the second engineer on the Infrastructure team, providing cross-coverage, including shared on-call rotation. We're looking for someone with strong backend engineering fundamentals and infrastructure expertise - you should be comfortable reading and reasoning about application code and understanding it in the context of deployed production services., * Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, deployment workflows, and infrastructure automation.

 * Manage and scale cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform
 * Maintain and extend infrastructure-as-code with Terraform/Terraform Cloud
 * Support database operations across PostgreSQL, Redis, BigQuery, Bigtable, and Firestore - including provisioning, scaling, backups, and performance tuning
 * Contribute to monitoring, alerting, and observability across production systems
 * Participate in on-call rotation and incident response
 * Support compliance and security requirements (HIPAA, SOC 2 Type 2), * HCP Terraform / Google Cloud Platform
 * Cursor / Linear / GitHub / Notion / Whimsical
 * Slack / Google Workspace / Zoom
 * incident.io / Sentry / Cloudsmith
 * Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini - we are an AI-forward engineering team
 * macOS / Linux